In a report last month, the NACIQI – which advises the Education Department on whether to approve accreditation agencies – called the language “vague and ambiguous” (see Diverse, Dec. 28) because it “inevitably requires the agency to use unpublished criteria when evaluating a law school.”
Education Department officials told The Washington Post that the ABA’s standard promotes quotas and could force schools in states like California and Michigan – where affirmative action has been banned – to break the law. But ABA officials say the Education Department is “misinterpreting the standard and pushing an anti-affirmative action agenda.”
— Diverse Staff Reports
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